High-Dose Intravenous Immune Globulin and the Response to Splenectomy in Patients with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Abstract

Patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura who have good or excellent responses to intravenous immune globulin are likely to have good or excellent responses to splenectomy, whereas patients who have poor responses to intravenous immune globulin are unlikely to have good or excellent responses to splenectomy.